3 Day Bwindi Gorilla Habituation Safari.

In order to spend more time with the endangered mountain gorillas, our 3-day Bwindi Gorilla Habituation Trip is a quick safari to Uganda that takes you to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park. You will have the opportunity to spend four hours with the mountain gorillas during this trip, helping to acclimate them to human presence. There are about 459 mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National area, which is home to half of the remaining mountain gorillas in their natural environment. If you visit this area, you have a 99% chance of sighting the gorillas.

Day by day

DAY 01:  Pick up and Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park.

Your tour guide will pick you up from your Kampala/Entebbe hotel or the Entebbe airport on this day, and you will begin the lengthy but worthwhile drive to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park, where you will encounter the locals and take in breathtaking scenery. Depending on your request and time, you will have the opportunity to stop near the Equator for pictures, have lunch while traveling, and make more alternative stops.

DAY 02: Gorilla Habituation Experience and Community visit

You will drive to the park headquarters after breakfast at the accommodation for a briefing from Uganda Wildlife Authority ranger guides who will assign you a gorilla family group to walk. In a party of four tourists, researchers, and ranger guides, you will hunt the deep jungle for endangered Mountain Gorillas. Gorillas are always searched from the previous day’s location.

The famous gorillas can only be interacted with for four hours, and you must keep silence. You can capture photos, etc. Evening community walks in the local Batwa community will delight and teach you about their culture.

Gorilla habituation involves hiking/walking through Bwindi Forest in search of mountain gorillas. The trek can be strenuous depending on weather and gorilla movement, but it is well organized, so you have 99% chances of seeing them.

Advanced trackers track mountain gorillas all day in the jungle to determine where they nested the night before, which is when you start hunting for them. Two ranger guides will conduct you through the walk, clearing and building pathways and imparting mountain gorilla and Bwindi forest information. After the trip, you’ll return to the start to get your mountain gorilla tracking credentials in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park.

DAY 03: Transfer back to Kampala/Entebbe

After an early breakfast, you will begin your journey back to Kampala/Entebbe, stopping along the way to take pictures in some of the tourist attractions. If you arrive in Kampala/Entebbe in the late afternoon, you will be taken to your hotel for dinner and overnight, or you will be taken to the airport to depart.

End of your safari